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So, I've had a pretty good time re-drawing designs for the battletech game that I'd done at maybe less than 100% on the fist go around. I've had a folder with a lot of them sitting in there like sad little puppies waiting to be made into a new coat. "Happy" to say, that pretty much takes care of all the one's that initially came into my head. Starting way back with the color redraws of the pack hunter and arctic wolf, and ending just shortly ago with the Corvis. There are still more, I'm sure of it. Some have slipped the first regurgitation on account of them maybe not being 100% my design folly, not unlike the Corvis. But, if you've got a suspect in mind that deserves a serious redressing after i boned it once before, by all means post and let me know. These make for excellent warm-up and cool-down affairs, and scratch a particular itch that almost all artists are familiar with. Plus, I'm sure some of you will get some enjoyment from them too ;) Since I'm likely to forget,

OK, so there's obviously been a LOT of pushback over DA's admitted f'd up actions, so i don't need to put more logs on the fire around that effigy. But, since it's happened once, and is likely to happen again I'm very likely to post less copies of commissioned artwork here. i value people having me do work for them, and their rights to that work. I don't need or intend to put that in any kind of jeopardy. So, you're likely to see less pictures in my commissions gallery at the very least. But, I am still foolish enough to post things i do for myself or for side projects, or other miscellaneous things. Speaking of which, my page here did recently pass a milestone marker and I'm likely working on something to celebrate it ;)

So, i got the chance to watch the first episode of the new Halo series on streaming. I won't lie, my knowledge and experience doesn't really go much past the first 2-3 games and most of the designs+gear. Seeing how well some recent series have done with the "armored/obscured main guy" I thought they might have a chance.... ---took his helmet off in the first episode. ugh.... ---inconsistent universe rules. Dude shoots covenant troopers with minigun...nothing....MC shoots same dudes with it, from the hip, they die instantly. If you want to have them be bad a$$, then justify it. Which they do at times! But then they have scenes working directly against those :/ ---Any possible ambiguity about whether the UN was "bad" is cleared up immediately. I just watched an alien stormtrooper heat vaporize some kids tripping on space mushrooms, but I'm pretty sure the UN comes off as somehow the "worse" of the two. Congrats, you've got a nice SFX updated version of the Stallone Judge Dread